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Sundays – a day of rest. Certainly true for me. Sunday morning is a time for lazing around leafing through the colour supplements and thinking about nothing in particular. Sunday 23rd October was a little bit different.
Wide-awake at 8 am ( I didn’t know that there was such a time as 8am on a Sunday), like several million others, I was wondering what would confront the All Blacks – the Gallic flair with which France had swept aside England or the Gallic shrug with which they had surrendered to Tonga ?
Look, I’m not really a New Zealander. Yes, I was born in Auckland but both my parents are English and I’ve lived most of my life in England. However, like anyone with a connection to the Land of the Long White Cloud, there is a part of my soul, however small, that takes the form of a Rugby ball.
At the end of the match, I was able to join my “fellow” Kiwis in, not so much paroxysms of joy as a huge collective sigh of relief.

On the whole though, I’d rather not have to see Sunday morning from that early on. So, if there is, for example, something that needs to run on my database on a Sunday morning, I’d rather the database just did it without my intervention.

What I plan to do here is :

set up a scheduler job

explore the ways in which we can control whether a class of job runs on a given database

stop jobs running on database startup

teach the scheduler how to tell the time – especially in terms of daylight saving